Surbhi Suhane, Author at Sixsigma DSI

Diffusion of Innovation: Adopter Categories & Six Sigma Use

Diffusion of Innovation is a theory, developed by communication scholar Everett Rogers in 1962, explaining how new ideas, products, or practices spread through a population over time, not all at once, but in a predictable sequence across five distinct groups....

Six Sigma Certification for Managers: Which Level Fits Your Role

The right Six Sigma certification for a manager depends on whether you’ll actually run improvement projects or sponsor them. A department manager expected to personally lead a defined improvement project should typically pursue Green Belt certification. A senior...

Enterprise Lean Transformation Training: Why Most Efforts Fail

Enterprise Lean transformation is a company-wide, sustained shift in how an organization solves problems and pursues continuous improvement, not a single project or a department-level initiative. It matters because most attempts at this scale fail: McKinsey’s...

Layered Process Audit (LPA): Layers, Frequency, and CQI-8

A Layered Process Audit (LPA) is a quality verification method where different levels of an organization, operators, supervisors, plant managers, and sometimes executives, each audit the same critical process steps at their own frequency. It matters because it catches...

Custom Lean Six Sigma Workshops: Formats, Uses, and Planning

A custom Lean Six Sigma workshop is a short, focused training session, typically one to five days, built around a specific business problem or tool rather than a full certification curriculum. It matters because not every process problem needs a Green Belt or Black...